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Santi Spadaro
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Periodic point-free maps and free ultrafilters.

Let $X$ be a set and $u$ be a free ultrafilter on $X$. We can consider a topology on $X$ by declaring every element of $u \cup \{\emptyset \}$ to be open.

El'kin's original motivation for looking at this topology is that $X$ is a space without isolated points which can't be split into disjoint dense subspaces. Another quirky feature: if $X$ is say $\mathbb{R}$ then translations are not continuous. This last fact makes me wonder: are there any periodic-point free continuous self maps at all on $X$ with this topology? In other words:

Is there a free ultrafilter $u$ on a set $X$ and a periodic point-free onto map $f: X \to X$ such that: $f^{-1}(A) \in u$, for every $A \in u$? Is there at least one such fixed-point free map?

Santi Spadaro
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